1. Recalling past sorrows restrained my heart,
And passion for you flowed when we met.

2. If you would grant me the cure I seek
It would relieve the sickness of my heart which you prolonged.

3. Because of you I disobeyed my kin, severing
The ties between us.

4. You left me with no joy in union
And did not requite me.

5. So I sat like a discarded water skin,
Its water wasted in the mirage of the plain pursued by one

6. Seeking to heal his echoing voice, though the pursuit of mirages slew him, O beloved, when he sought water.
Suaida exclaimed while copious tears

7. Streamed down her cheeks and robe:
“Would that the Mughayri I did not allow

8. All he sought in courting me had restored our past days
When we were blamed for neither love nor passion!”

9. When told what she had said, I spent the night as though
My heart were pierced by arrow points.

10. Is Suaida the water and pure air of the Euphrates
When I and she alike suffer thirst and lack of drink?

11. There is none sweeter than you, though you are far away and women rarely
Guard the trust of an absent lover.